Platform Nine

Verse 1

First frost on the platform

I ran for a train already gone

She was reading by the yellow lamp

Coat too thin for the season drawn

Old clock ticked backward

At least that's how it felt that day

She raised her eyes and smiled at nothing

Then the late board blinked and turned to gray

Pre-Chorus

Every time I swear I'll stop coming back

Every time the same pull calls me down

Chorus

And I never learn her name

She's the girl from Platform Nine

Winter on her lashes

Summer in her eyes still mine

She stays while the whole world moves on

And I'm chasing a light I can't find

Verse 2

Years dissolved like station steam

My hair turned gray my hands grew cold

But she stood there in the self-same coat

A photograph that never grows old

I brought her coffee just to try

She looked right through the cup I held

A window to a time gone by

Too close to touch too far to tell

Pre-Chorus

Every time I swear I'll stop coming back

Every time the same pull calls me down

Chorus

And I never learn her name

She's the girl from Platform Nine

Winter on her lashes

Summer in her eyes still mine

She stays while the whole world moves on

And I'm chasing a light I can't find

Bridge

Maybe she waits for a different man

The one who never left

Maybe I'm just the one who stayed

And turned into my own regret

Maybe the train she never boards

Is the only one that's ever real

And I keep arriving late to love

The half I'll never feel

Final Verse

Tonight the station's board is dark

No number and no name

I sit where I first saw her smile

And whisper to the flame

She flickers back the way she came

I'll be here when the seasons turn

The girl from Platform Nine is gone

But some new frost will burn